Heart Health

Phys­i­cal activ­i­ty after a heart attack is impor­tant for your long-term heart health. Here’s how to exer­cise safe­ly if you’ve had a heart attack. 

An elec­tro­car­dio­gram, also known as an EKG, helps detect and diag­nose dif­fer­ent heart con­di­tions. An EKG is a non-inva­sive, pain­less test that records the elec­tri­cal sig­nals pro­duced from your heart.

From types of heart mur­murs to treat­ment, here are 5 things to know about abnor­mal nois­es between heartbeats.

Com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent things hap­pen inter­nal­ly when you have a heart attack vs going into car­diac arrest. Learn the dif­fer­ence between them.

Our Struc­tur­al Heart Team offers the fol­low­ing min­i­mal­ly inva­sive pro­ce­dures that can be just as effec­tive as open heart surgery, with­out the high­er risk.

Heart dis­ease is a seri­ous health con­cern, as it is the lead­ing cause of death in the Unit­ed States. There are sev­er­al risk fac­tors asso­ci­at­ed with car­dio­vas­cu­lar dis­ease, from genet­ics to con­di­tions that can be mod­i­fied be with treat­ment. If you are at risk of heart dis­ease, it is impor­tant to be aware of any risks or con­di­tions you that may have in order to pre­vent com­pro­mis­ing your heart health.

Heart attacks may com­mon­ly be asso­ci­at­ed with men, but women are just as like­ly to expe­ri­ence heart dis­ease. Find out how symp­toms, risk fac­tors and pre­ven­tion may impact women’s heart health.

The human heart is respon­si­ble for pump­ing blood and oxy­gen through­out your body, mak­ing it one of the most vital organs. It is com­prised of arter­ies, mus­cles and elec­tri­cal impuls­es that keep us healthy and mov­ing on a dai­ly basis. Due to its com­plex­i­ty and rela­tion­ship with oth­er organs in your body, there are a vari­ety of car­di­ol­o­gists who spe­cial­ize in dif­fer­ent func­tions of your car­diac system.

Did you know that stress sets off a chain reac­tion where your body releas­es adren­a­line, a hor­mone that increas­es your res­pi­ra­tions and heart rate? Here are some tips for cop­ing with stress that will reduce the num­ber of neg­a­tive behav­iors that adverse­ly affect your car­dio­vas­cu­lar system.

About every 40 sec­onds, some­one in the Unit­ed States has a heart attack. Despite that star­tling sta­tis­tic, the good news is that not every chest pain or dis­com­fort is a sign of a heart attack. These symp­toms could just be signs of indigestion.